Greater Manchester’s Mayor has slammed the decision yesterday to release Trafford from local lockdown restrictions after Manchester’s leaders had recommended the opposite
Speaking on BBC Breakfast earlier today he said: “I think we will better negotiate what lies ahead of us in the autumn and winter if the government listens to local leaders – they know their communities.
“It wasn’t just in Greater Manchester where they overruled us. In Bradford, basically communities were split there – some are still under restrictions, some not.
“You then have the situation where some people on one half of the street are under restrictions and others not.
“My main message to the government is you must not impose these things from London when you are going to affect communities in this way, it must be by negotiation and agreement.
“And that needs to be a core principle that we agree on before we go any further into the rest of what will be a very difficult year.”
The Mayor added that communities should be “worried” about the way decisions were being taken. “Imposition of decisions like this without agreement or negotiation is absolutely the wrong way to go.
